MindWell™ Practitioner Certification Program   |  August 5 -7, 2026

MindWell™ Practitioner Certification Program | August 5 -7, 2026

San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA
Wednesday, Aug 5 at 9am to Friday, Aug 7
Overview

Integrate deeply regenerative techniques into your wellness portfolio and leadership development initiatives and create a powerful shift.

2.5 Day MindWell Practitioner™ Certification Program

The MindWell Practitioner™ creates the space and structure for others to step back, reconnect with their inner direction, and return to their roles with clarity, presence, and capacity, using the MindWell 365™ and the MindWell RESTORED™ frameworks. We facilitate recalibration experiences where high performers align decision-making with achievable outcomes, gain access to stronger internal resources, and transmute stress into creative power.

We don’t teach “resilience.” We restore it.

As such, we often carry the weight of emotionally charged conflict, competing priorities, and challenging behaviors, which demands consistent nervous system resilience. Without intentional recovery, stress accumulates, which dims focus and clarity, emotional attunement, and leadership effectiveness. Our Pacific Northwest retreats provide the ideal environment for restoration and embodied clarity. Here, quiet forests, rivers, and open skies dissolve stress, sharpen focus, and renew emotional presence.

Natural regulation: Towering evergreens, mossy forests, and glacial rivers create a sensory environment that naturally downshifts stress, lowers cortisol, and restores parasympathetic balance.

Deep restoration: Silence, wide-open skies, and clean air allow practitioners to engage in coherence, mindfulness, and somatic practices more deeply, turning learning and reflection into lived experience.

Psychological and cognitive clarity: Removing the usual stimuli and obligations gives space for strategic reflection, insight, and recalibration, which directly enhances their capacity to manage complexity and high-stakes interpersonal dynamics.

Rejuvenation for sustainable leadership: Time in nature resets attention, improves emotional flexibility, and strengthens resilience, so that practitioners return to their work more centered, present, and capable of sustaining high-impact performance.

The MindWell Practitioner™ Certification Program is designed for people who are called to work at the intersection of mindfulness, intentionality, resilience, and capacity. It is for those who already sense that sustainable change does not come from pushing harder, performing better, or fixing others, but from creating the internal and relational conditions in which people can restore themselves. Whether you come from coaching, healthcare, movement, education, leadership, creative, or community work, this program meets you where you are and expands your ability to support others in grounded, ethical, and deeply human ways.

At the heart of the MindWell Practitioner™ Program is a neuroscience informed, immersive approach to resilience, presence, and cognitive wellbeing. You will learn how stress accumulates in the nervous system, how attention shapes experience, and how emotional and physiological states influence clarity, decision making, and connection. More importantly, you will learn how to guide individuals and groups back into regulation, coherence, and perspective without pressure or inauthenticity. This work does not rely on motivation or mindset. It relies on rhythm, attunement, and the steady cultivation of safety and awareness. As a practitioner, your presence becomes the primary tool, supported by simple, repeatable protocols that translate across contexts.

The program is both personal and professional. As you learn to facilitate MindWell sessions, you also deepen your own capacity for regulation, discernment, and sustainable contribution. Many participants describe this as a reorientation of how they work, lead, and relate rather than an additional skill set. You will leave with the confidence to lead MindWell experiences in studios, organizations, retreats, and communities, as well as the discernment to know when to slow, when to listen, and when to intervene. The MindWell Practitioner™ Program is not about becoming an expert over others. It is about becoming a steady, trustworthy presence who knows how to help people come back to themselves.


Who It's For

  • High achievers who want to perform at their best without burning out, losing themselves, or dimming their creativity.
  • Executive coaches, facilitators, and advisors with clients who lead complexity, decision fatigue, rapid change, or high-stakes environments.
  • Pilates, Yoga, Movement, Breathwork & Somatic Professionals who want the language, structure, and neuroscience behind peak performance.
  • HR, People Leaders & Organizational Development Professionals who want to address burnout and stress before they become systemic issues.
  • Healthcare, Mental Health & Allied Health Professionals who want to expand their toolkit for preventive, non-pathologizing wellbeing work.
  • Educators & Learning Designers who want to teach clarity, regulation, and resilience experientially, not just conceptually.
  • Leaders with Lived Experience of Burnout or Transition who want a structured, ethical way to turn experience into service and guidance.
  • Sports Performance, Physical Therapists, Post Bariatric Surgey & Recovery Professionals who want to help their clients overcome limiting habits and beliefs.


The Journey

Outdoor Experiences | Personalized Mentoring + Integration | Teams & Systems Wellness Plan

The MindWell Practitioner™ Program is an immersive, multi-sensory, neuroscience-based transformative program designed to equip facilitators with evidence-informed, nature-based methodologies that reliably restore nervous system balance, cognitive clarity, and emotional regulation in high-performing individuals and groups. This program emphasizes structured, teachable protocols rather than recreational wellness experiences, enabling practitioners to deliver interventions with intentionality, safety, and measurable impact.

The MindWell 365™ and MindWell RESTORED™ protocols build an inner foundation so you can lead with clarity, purpose, and strength even in high-pressure environments. What makes the MindWell Practitioner™ Program different is not a single technique or framework. It is where the work is done and how change is created. Most programs operate at the level of knowledge, mindset, or performance. MindWell works at the level of the nervous system, attention, and lived experience, where emotional clarity and resilience are actually generated.

Instead of adding another modality or identity, this program integrates seamlessly into your existing work and positions your own experiences with greater credibility and confidence.

In this retreat, you:

  • Receive a detailed breakdown of cognitive strengths and blindspots, with a personalized optimization plan
  • Experience a full cognitive reset and rewire your relationship to pressure and stress
  • Explore and upgrade your inner narrative, limiting beliefs, behaviors, and stories you’ve unconsciously carried that influence performance
  • Integrate scientifically proven techniques and habits that protect your energy, momentum, and flow
  • Identify and elevate the neuro-dynamics and interpersonal relationships around you
  • Move from intellectual understanding into lived, automatic behavior.


The Pacific Northwest is a living sensory immersion, cool air rolling off evergreen forests, glacial rivers carving through volcanic stone, and the kind of silence that lets your whole system exhale. Your nervous system learns as much as the mind. Out here, the terrain, air, and quiet help imprint new habits, rhythms, and patterns into the body so they become automatic, not performative. You flow seamlessly into expanded states of consciousness, naturally raising the level of thinking and presence of your team and everyone around you. Clarity arrives on its own, lifting like fog carried by the rhythm of wind and water. This is where you come to shed noise, reconnect with your own depth, and experience transformation that feels both grounded and expansive.

Practitioners return to their work centered, coherent, and fully capable of sustaining high-impact leadership.


Agenda At A Glance

Day One

  • MindWell 365™ and RESTORED™ Protocols
  • Expanding Awareness and Interpersonal Acuity
  • Lunch | Brain Health & Nutrition: Eating for Focus and Vitality
  • Re-Patterning your Stress Reflex
  • Digital Detox: River Walk & Urban Forest Bathing
  • Late Tea | Sleep, Stillness and Mental Ease

Day Two

  • Creating Flow and Strengthening Focus
  • Elevating Perception, Energy/Mood, and Brain-State
  • Lunch
  • Strategic Thinking and Decision-Making Under Pressure
  • Digital Detox: Forest & Dark Sky Immersion (Lakeside Star Gazing Party)

Day Three

  • Emotional Clarity, Connection, and Coherence
  • Designing and Facilitating Creative Events, Immersions and Star Parties
  • Lunch | Certificates & Celebration


What's Included

  • The MindWell 365™ and The MindWell RESTORED™ Assessments.
  • The MindWell™ Workbook and Practitioner Guide
  • The MindWell™ Practitioner Certificate


Transformative Outcomes

You leave with:

  • A fully personalized roadmap for integrating identity-level shifts, micro-habits, and strategic decision frameworks into daily practice
  • A scientifically backed framework, assessments, and techniques that work instantly with nervous system states rather than advice, motivation, or activities alone
  • A Practitioner Guide for applying MindWell™ principles, activities, and tools to your own practice, and in wellness portfolios and coaching packages you offer to your clients


This Is for You If...

  • You want to bring a modern, scientifcally backed set of modalities into your coaching practice or studio
  • You advise, lead, and develop global executives and senior leaders
  • You want to elevate critical, analytical, or strategic thinking in the workplace
  • You want to tap into greater levels of creativity or break through a plateau
  • You are leading a highly creative team and need to make solid decisions in a more timely manner
  • You want to prevent high performer burnout and retain talent

Integrate deeply regenerative techniques into your wellness portfolio and leadership development initiatives and create a powerful shift.

2.5 Day MindWell Practitioner™ Certification Program

The MindWell Practitioner™ creates the space and structure for others to step back, reconnect with their inner direction, and return to their roles with clarity, presence, and capacity, using the MindWell 365™ and the MindWell RESTORED™ frameworks. We facilitate recalibration experiences where high performers align decision-making with achievable outcomes, gain access to stronger internal resources, and transmute stress into creative power.

We don’t teach “resilience.” We restore it.

As such, we often carry the weight of emotionally charged conflict, competing priorities, and challenging behaviors, which demands consistent nervous system resilience. Without intentional recovery, stress accumulates, which dims focus and clarity, emotional attunement, and leadership effectiveness. Our Pacific Northwest retreats provide the ideal environment for restoration and embodied clarity. Here, quiet forests, rivers, and open skies dissolve stress, sharpen focus, and renew emotional presence.

Natural regulation: Towering evergreens, mossy forests, and glacial rivers create a sensory environment that naturally downshifts stress, lowers cortisol, and restores parasympathetic balance.

Deep restoration: Silence, wide-open skies, and clean air allow practitioners to engage in coherence, mindfulness, and somatic practices more deeply, turning learning and reflection into lived experience.

Psychological and cognitive clarity: Removing the usual stimuli and obligations gives space for strategic reflection, insight, and recalibration, which directly enhances their capacity to manage complexity and high-stakes interpersonal dynamics.

Rejuvenation for sustainable leadership: Time in nature resets attention, improves emotional flexibility, and strengthens resilience, so that practitioners return to their work more centered, present, and capable of sustaining high-impact performance.

The MindWell Practitioner™ Certification Program is designed for people who are called to work at the intersection of mindfulness, intentionality, resilience, and capacity. It is for those who already sense that sustainable change does not come from pushing harder, performing better, or fixing others, but from creating the internal and relational conditions in which people can restore themselves. Whether you come from coaching, healthcare, movement, education, leadership, creative, or community work, this program meets you where you are and expands your ability to support others in grounded, ethical, and deeply human ways.

At the heart of the MindWell Practitioner™ Program is a neuroscience informed, immersive approach to resilience, presence, and cognitive wellbeing. You will learn how stress accumulates in the nervous system, how attention shapes experience, and how emotional and physiological states influence clarity, decision making, and connection. More importantly, you will learn how to guide individuals and groups back into regulation, coherence, and perspective without pressure or inauthenticity. This work does not rely on motivation or mindset. It relies on rhythm, attunement, and the steady cultivation of safety and awareness. As a practitioner, your presence becomes the primary tool, supported by simple, repeatable protocols that translate across contexts.

The program is both personal and professional. As you learn to facilitate MindWell sessions, you also deepen your own capacity for regulation, discernment, and sustainable contribution. Many participants describe this as a reorientation of how they work, lead, and relate rather than an additional skill set. You will leave with the confidence to lead MindWell experiences in studios, organizations, retreats, and communities, as well as the discernment to know when to slow, when to listen, and when to intervene. The MindWell Practitioner™ Program is not about becoming an expert over others. It is about becoming a steady, trustworthy presence who knows how to help people come back to themselves.


Who It's For

  • High achievers who want to perform at their best without burning out, losing themselves, or dimming their creativity.
  • Executive coaches, facilitators, and advisors with clients who lead complexity, decision fatigue, rapid change, or high-stakes environments.
  • Pilates, Yoga, Movement, Breathwork & Somatic Professionals who want the language, structure, and neuroscience behind peak performance.
  • HR, People Leaders & Organizational Development Professionals who want to address burnout and stress before they become systemic issues.
  • Healthcare, Mental Health & Allied Health Professionals who want to expand their toolkit for preventive, non-pathologizing wellbeing work.
  • Educators & Learning Designers who want to teach clarity, regulation, and resilience experientially, not just conceptually.
  • Leaders with Lived Experience of Burnout or Transition who want a structured, ethical way to turn experience into service and guidance.
  • Sports Performance, Physical Therapists, Post Bariatric Surgey & Recovery Professionals who want to help their clients overcome limiting habits and beliefs.


The Journey

Outdoor Experiences | Personalized Mentoring + Integration | Teams & Systems Wellness Plan

The MindWell Practitioner™ Program is an immersive, multi-sensory, neuroscience-based transformative program designed to equip facilitators with evidence-informed, nature-based methodologies that reliably restore nervous system balance, cognitive clarity, and emotional regulation in high-performing individuals and groups. This program emphasizes structured, teachable protocols rather than recreational wellness experiences, enabling practitioners to deliver interventions with intentionality, safety, and measurable impact.

The MindWell 365™ and MindWell RESTORED™ protocols build an inner foundation so you can lead with clarity, purpose, and strength even in high-pressure environments. What makes the MindWell Practitioner™ Program different is not a single technique or framework. It is where the work is done and how change is created. Most programs operate at the level of knowledge, mindset, or performance. MindWell works at the level of the nervous system, attention, and lived experience, where emotional clarity and resilience are actually generated.

Instead of adding another modality or identity, this program integrates seamlessly into your existing work and positions your own experiences with greater credibility and confidence.

In this retreat, you:

  • Receive a detailed breakdown of cognitive strengths and blindspots, with a personalized optimization plan
  • Experience a full cognitive reset and rewire your relationship to pressure and stress
  • Explore and upgrade your inner narrative, limiting beliefs, behaviors, and stories you’ve unconsciously carried that influence performance
  • Integrate scientifically proven techniques and habits that protect your energy, momentum, and flow
  • Identify and elevate the neuro-dynamics and interpersonal relationships around you
  • Move from intellectual understanding into lived, automatic behavior.


The Pacific Northwest is a living sensory immersion, cool air rolling off evergreen forests, glacial rivers carving through volcanic stone, and the kind of silence that lets your whole system exhale. Your nervous system learns as much as the mind. Out here, the terrain, air, and quiet help imprint new habits, rhythms, and patterns into the body so they become automatic, not performative. You flow seamlessly into expanded states of consciousness, naturally raising the level of thinking and presence of your team and everyone around you. Clarity arrives on its own, lifting like fog carried by the rhythm of wind and water. This is where you come to shed noise, reconnect with your own depth, and experience transformation that feels both grounded and expansive.

Practitioners return to their work centered, coherent, and fully capable of sustaining high-impact leadership.


Agenda At A Glance

Day One

  • MindWell 365™ and RESTORED™ Protocols
  • Expanding Awareness and Interpersonal Acuity
  • Lunch | Brain Health & Nutrition: Eating for Focus and Vitality
  • Re-Patterning your Stress Reflex
  • Digital Detox: River Walk & Urban Forest Bathing
  • Late Tea | Sleep, Stillness and Mental Ease

Day Two

  • Creating Flow and Strengthening Focus
  • Elevating Perception, Energy/Mood, and Brain-State
  • Lunch
  • Strategic Thinking and Decision-Making Under Pressure
  • Digital Detox: Forest & Dark Sky Immersion (Lakeside Star Gazing Party)

Day Three

  • Emotional Clarity, Connection, and Coherence
  • Designing and Facilitating Creative Events, Immersions and Star Parties
  • Lunch | Certificates & Celebration


What's Included

  • The MindWell 365™ and The MindWell RESTORED™ Assessments.
  • The MindWell™ Workbook and Practitioner Guide
  • The MindWell™ Practitioner Certificate


Transformative Outcomes

You leave with:

  • A fully personalized roadmap for integrating identity-level shifts, micro-habits, and strategic decision frameworks into daily practice
  • A scientifically backed framework, assessments, and techniques that work instantly with nervous system states rather than advice, motivation, or activities alone
  • A Practitioner Guide for applying MindWell™ principles, activities, and tools to your own practice, and in wellness portfolios and coaching packages you offer to your clients


This Is for You If...

  • You want to bring a modern, scientifcally backed set of modalities into your coaching practice or studio
  • You advise, lead, and develop global executives and senior leaders
  • You want to elevate critical, analytical, or strategic thinking in the workplace
  • You want to tap into greater levels of creativity or break through a plateau
  • You are leading a highly creative team and need to make solid decisions in a more timely manner
  • You want to prevent high performer burnout and retain talent

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San Francisco, CA 94103

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